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Amazon, Big Data Mining, and More Lies

Posted on December 4, 2018 by Douglas Farrago MD

This is from a recent Wall St. Journal article: Amazon.com Inc. is starting to sell software that mines patient medical records

Big Data Making Doctors’ Lives Easier?

Posted on September 3, 2014September 2, 2014 by Douglas Farrago MD

Here is a knucklehead from an AAFP article on “Big Data” showing exactly why “Big Data” can be ridiculous: With

Big Data

Posted on January 19, 2013January 23, 2013 by Douglas Farrago MD

The title of the article in the WSJ was Researchers Mine Data From Clinic, Big Insurer and when I saw it

Thanks to Hospitals, Big Tech is Getting More and More of Your Medical Data

Posted on January 28, 2020January 31, 2020 by Douglas Farrago MD

The picture above, and the following quote, come from a recent article in the Wall Street Journal: Hospitals have granted Microsoft Corp., International

Happy New Year from Big Pharma

Posted on January 11, 2020January 11, 2020 by Steven Mussey MD

It’s the New Year’s and drug companies immediately went to work raising prices. The quote I love is from the

Big Pharma Continues to Make Billions, Unethically

Posted on October 8, 2019October 7, 2019 by Adil Manzoor DO

In the United States the most profitable business is healthcare. It’s the only country where the wholesale cost of medication

The Big Three Save The Healthcare System?

Posted on February 4, 2018February 7, 2018 by Douglas Farrago MD

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase are going to create an independent health care system. This sounds good and they

Sharing Medical Data

Posted on July 10, 2017 by Douglas Farrago MD

The article in the LA Times starts with this: “Glendale Adventist Medical Center’s recent partnership with a nonprofit group is

Data Re-identification

Posted on January 17, 2017January 18, 2017 by Douglas Farrago MD

I have spoken about how important the selling of data is to third parties. It’s called money. From a colleague

It Was A Big Weekend by Pat Conrad MD

Posted on November 29, 2016November 28, 2016 by Douglas Farrago MD

Back when I had my own website “Doctors For Freedom”, I always dedicated my monthly November entry to celebrating all